| Key | Value |
| "Secret" required | Thiel invests in "secrets" — ideas everyone thinks are crazy that are actually true. What's Genesis's secret? |
| "Zero to One" philosophy | He only backs FOUNDING moments — things that didn't exist before |
| 2024 | Thiel Foundation narrowed grantmaking: 12 awards totaling $3.01M (down from 59 awards in 2023) [S8]. Grants included Lumen Christi Institute ($63K), Leo Strauss Foundation ($100K), Colloquium on Viole |
| 2025 | Adopted Rule 10b5-1 trading plan (November 14, 2025) for orderly Palantir share dispositions [S3]. |
| 2026 | Multi-night lecture series on "the Antichrist" and AI in Rome |
| AI portfolio | Anthropic, OpenAI, Cognition (Devin), Shield AI, Anduril (AI defense) |
| Access difficulty | Despite 75 warm score, getting a meeting with Thiel personally (vs. a Founders Fund associate) requires an extraordinary hook. |
| Action | Carter should request an intro through Trae. Lead with the sovereign AI thesis, not theology. |
| Acts 17 / Code & Cosmos | Trae Stephens, Michelle Stephens, Garry Tan |
| Acts 17 Collective events | Ongoing |
| Adeodatus | General Foundation Grant |
| Adjacent proof | "You already back Panthalassa (sovereign compute) and Objection.ai (truth verification). Genesis is the synthesis." |
| Ajay Royan | Thiel Foundation board; Mithril Capital co-founder |
| Alex Karp | Palantir CEO; co-founder |
| Alignment Score | 93/100 (civilization-bet frame, not devotional) |
| Alignment honesty | Thiel's Christianity is a civilization-bet, not a prayer-meeting faith. His engagement is through Girard, Catholic intellectual tradition, and Western civilization preservation. This is NOT the same f |
| All major figures like: - Wilks Brothers, Tim Dunn, Green Family (Hobby Lobby) - Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Marc Andreessen - Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck, Patrick Bet-David, Charlie Kirk - Robert Jeffress, Franklin Graham, Kenneth Copeland - Donald Trump, Trump Jr., Mike Johnson, Ted Cruz ### POTENTIAL GAPS I IDENTIFIED | Several names from the master list may not be explici |
| All-In Summit 2026 | Sept 13–15, Los Angeles |
| Anduril | $1B Series G (June 2025) — largest FF check EVER |
| Anduril Industries | Early backer (FF) |
| Anthropic | Co-led ~$30B round at ~$380B post-money |
| April 2025 | Founders Fund Growth III ($4.6B) closed — 270 LPs |
| April 2026 | Palantir 2026 proxy filing lists Thiel (age 58) as Co-Founder and Chairman [S7]. |
| Architecture | Technical depth — own hardware, verification layer, not another model |
| Aug 2025 | Participated in OpenAI $8.3B round |
| Average check | ~$600M (Growth III deployed across ~7 companies) |
| BLAKE MASTERS PATH | Engage via Zero to One thesis alignment — he's COO of Thiel Capital, President of Thiel Foundation, intellectual partner. \ | Week 2-4 \ | Carter \ | |
| Betweenness Centrality (s1312) | 7,597.77 — Extremely high. He sits at the intersection of tech, intelligence, defense, media, and political capital. |
| Blake Masters | Co-wrote "Zero to One" with Thiel; served as COO of Thiel Capital and President of Thiel Foundation |
| Born | October 11, 1967, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany (age 58) |
| Bottom Line | Remove ALL 42+ individuals/categories listed above. Day 7 is about REVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORMATION, not incremental reform with compromised partners. |
| Breakdown | - Theological: 70/100 — Christian via René Girard and Leo Strauss. He is theologically literate but NOT scripture-responsive. He treats Christianity as a useful mythos, not a living revelation. Th |
| Brian Singerman | Partner Emeritus (since Dec 2024) |
| CRM Contact Intel (Confidence: B) | This is an intellectual and strategic pitch, not a faith pitch. Lead with the contrarian secret: sovereign, independent AI creates more value because it pursues truth without corporate constraints — t |
| CRM Net Worth (Confidence: B) | 28B+ (Forbes/Bloomberg 2026 — was stale 11B+; Palantir/Anduril ~3x) |
| CRM Notes (Confidence: B) | [S1288 refresh: net worth verified, dossier wired.] \ | Warm path: Founders Fund partners: Singerman, Stephens, Luttig, Asparouhov |
| Career Arc | - 1996: Co-founded PayPal with Max Levchin |
| Category | "Zero to one: no one else is building this" |
| Caveat | Do not reference defense-policy/DoD roles to him — he was considered for a senior DoD role in 2025 that did not materialize; sore spot. |
| Citizenship | United States, New Zealand, Germany |
| Civilization-frame | He thinks about what ENDURES when everything is disrupted |
| Claremont / Conservative Intellect | Thiel, Arnn, Masters, Hawley, various |
| Clarium Capital | Macro hedge fund |
| Classification | Internal business-development research — public sources only |
| Cluster Analysis | Thiel sits at the center of the Tech-SV Right cluster (community 117). This cluster includes: |
| Co-founded | PayPal (1998, via Confinity), Palantir Technologies (2003), Valar Ventures, Mithril Capital, Founders Fund |
| Code & Cosmos | Ongoing (Garry Tan + Trae Stephens) |
| Cognition (Devin) | Led $400M at $10.2B (Sept 2025) |
| Cold path | LinkedIn with substance, citing Anduril/Palantir kinship + Lattice Partner Program parallel. |
| Colloquium on Violence and Religion | Imitatio Grant |
| Communication Style | - Frameworks, not facts. He thinks in systems (mimetic theory, Strauss's esoteric/exoteric, monopoly theory). Don't give him data; give him a model. |
| Community Cluster | 117 — Tech-SV (Silicon Valley right flank). |
| Company | Founders Fund (Managing Partner); Thiel Capital |
| Composite Score | 85.5/100 |
| Content | - Page 1: The sovereign AI thesis. Why the state is failing. Why private infrastructure is the only path. |
| Contrarian filter | He rejects anything that sounds like consensus. Position Genesis as the CONTRARIAN bet. |
| Core inversion | Thiel argues that in the 21st century the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science — naming Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nick Bostrom, and Greta Thunberg as "legionnaires of the Antichrist" who a |
| Coverage | 71% |
| Data Status | RICH (41,866 bytes across sources) |
| Dated Public Statements on Faith/Religion | \ | Statement/Evidence \ | Date \ | Source \ | |
| David Sacks | PayPal COO; Craft Ventures; All-In Podcast co-host; former AI/Crypto Czar |
| David Wheelock | Thiel Foundation President |
| Defense/Sovereignty "Trilogy" | Palantir, Anduril (Luckey), General Matter |
| Defining asset | Palantir Technologies (co-founder; ~4% stake, ~68.9M shares, ~$10.4B per March 4, 2026 SEC filing) |
| Delian Asparouhov | Space/sovereignty |
| Direct Contact | - Email: peter@foundersfund.com (verified, high confidence) |
| Direct? | No |
| Do NOT lead with | Evangelical devotional language, emotional appeals, "serving God" framing. Lead with: contrarian intellectual thesis about civilization, technology, and why faith-tech is the hidden truth everyone is |
| Dossier | planning/wave3-dossiers/peter-thiel.md |
| Due diligence intensity | Founders Fund does world-class diligence. Must survive scrutiny. |
| ECOSYSTEM | Build relationships with Lonsdale (8VC), Sacks, Rabois — PayPal Mafia proximity creates ambient awareness. \ | Ongoing \ | Carter \ | |
| Early investments | Facebook (first outside investor, $500K → ~$1B+), SpaceX, Stripe, LinkedIn, Yelp, Airbnb |
| Education | Stanford University (B.A. Philosophy, 1989; J.D. Stanford Law School, 1992) |
| Elon Musk | PayPal co-founders (Confinity merged with X.com in 2000); decades-long professional relationship |
| Events | - Founders Fund annual meetings — Invite-only. Need a partner to sponsor. |
| Faith | "A small-o orthodox Christian" — Girardian, Catholic-intellectual-adjacent, non-denominational, not scripture-responsive |
| Faith / Antichrist Lectures | - Catholic Herald — "small-o orthodox Christian" quote; lecture coverage |
| Faith Evidence from Thiel Foundation 990 | - "Imitatio" grants program = dedicated to René Girard's Christian anthropology |
| Faith engagement confirmed | Thiel Foundation 990 shows ongoing "Imitatio" grants to Catholic intellectual organizations (Lumen Christi, Colloquium on Violence and Religion) |
| Family office | Thiel Capital (relocated to Miami / Wynwood, FL, early 2026 — tax/legal repositioning signal) |